This folder provides links to the most relevant websites on the topics of interest to this Network. To make this a truly useful tool, we would like to ask you to add missing websites and/or inform us in case you find old or less-relevant websites in the below list.

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Please click on the topic of your choice to be directed to the related links listed below: 

• Economic Valuation
• Ecological Valuation
• Cultural Valuation
• Application of Valuation in Decision Making
• Financing Mechanisms
• Related Organisations

Links

Economic Valuation

• Conservational International - A collaborative collection of ecosystem services valuation case studies
• Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News, Empirical Cost-Benefit and Environmental Value Estimates
• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Biodiversity Economics
• Earthmind - Regional Workshop on Economic Valuation and Water-Related Decision-Making
• Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec)
• Ecosystem Services Database - data and analysis portal to assist the informed estimation of the economic values of ecosystem services
• Ecosystem Services Project (CSIRO)
• Ecosystem Marketplace
• EcoValue - an interactive decision support system for assessing and reporting the economic value of ecosystem goods and services in geographic context.
• Environmental Economics - World Bank
• Environmental Valuation Laboratory
• Green Accounting: A Virtual Resource Center (UNEP) - a searchable database of various resources related to integrated environmental and economic accounting
• IUCN Economics and Environment 
• Searchable Archive of Publications on Environmental-Economic Accounting - The archive of publications has been developed by UNSD under the auspices of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA). It is one of the activities contributing to the establishment of a knowledge-based platform for environmental-economic accounting on the UNCEEA website.
• Environmental Valuation in Europe (EVE
• Environmental Valuation Database (ENVALUE)
• Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (EVRI)
• International Institute of Ecological Economics(ISEE)
• National Ocean Economics Project (NOEP)
• Natural Capital Project: Making Conservation Economically Attractive & Commonplace
• Nature Valuation & Cost benefit Analysis
• University of Vermont, Ecological Economics

 

 

Ecological Valuation

 

 

• Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News, Empirical Cost-Benefit and Environmental Value Estimates
• Measuring Biodiversity Value 
• Communicating Ecosystem Services - Tools for scientists to engage the public
• Ecosystem Services Project (CSIRO)
• Ecological Society of America - Ecosystem Services
• Institute for Environmental Security
• Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)  

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Cultural Valuation

• Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) works in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health, and culture.
• UNESCO MAB - People, Biodiversity and Ecology - news stream
• People and Wildlife Innitiative
• Forest Peoples Programme
• Terralingua
• The Forum on religioin and Ecology
• World Wide Indigenous Science Network (WISN)
• TILCEPA Theme on Indigenous & Local Communities, Equity & Protected Areas
• The International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity IIFB
• Facts and figures about water religions and beliefs

• Convention on Biological Diversity - Article 8(j): Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices

• IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
• Indigenous Knowledge Pages
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Enabeling rural poor to overcome poverty - special attention for Indigenous people
• International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
• World Bank & Indigenous Peoples PracticesInter-American Commission on Human Rights
• United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
• United Nations permanent forum on Indigenous People
• Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
• Association for Conflict Resolution
• The Conflict Resolution Information Source
• ARC Alliance of Religions and Conservation
• Sacred Lands Film Project
• Cultural Survival
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• The Mountain Institute - Sacred Mountain Program
• IUCN WCPA Task Force  on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA)
• Delos Initiative
• Sacred Mountains Program is a program of the Mountain Institute's which mission it is to advance mountain cultures and preserve mountain environments.
• Wetlands International - Wetlands and Livelyhoods Working Group (WLWG)
• Religion, Nature and Culture

Application of Valuation in Decision Making

• co-Securitisation (‘EcoSec’)
• Earth Economics
  
• Environmental Valuation in Europe (EVE)
• Green Accounting: A Virtual Resource Center (UNEP) - a searchable database of various resources related to integrated environmental and economic accounting
• National Oceans Office
• IUCN - Commission on Ecosystem Management
• The World Bank - "Agricultural Drainage: Towards an Integrated Approach" (DRAINFRAME)

Financing Mechanisms

• Conservation Finance Alliance
• Biodiversity Economics Library
• Conservation Finance Guide
• Ecosystem Marketplace
• Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES)
• Biorights

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Related Organisations

• Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News, Empirical Cost-Benefit and Environmental Value Estimates

• The Netherlands Biodiversity Platform
• Asia-Europe Environment Forum
• CE Delft
• Cesar Environmental Economics Consulting
• Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment
• Communicating Ecosystem Services - Tools for scientists to engage the public
• Conservation Commons Connecting people with the information they need
• CSERGE
• Earth3000
• Earth Assets Group
• Earth Economics
• Earthmind - Synergies for Sustainability
• Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal (World Resources Institute)
• Ecoinformatics Collaboratory
• Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec)
• Environmental Impact Assessment weblist
• EU Funding Opportunities for the Environment
• Forest Trends
• Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD)
• Global Development Network 
• Incentives for Environmental Services
• International Association for Impact Assessment
• Institute for Environmental Security
• Institute for Environmental Studies
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
• IUCN Books online service
• IUCN Water & Nature Initiative
• Iwokrama
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment (MLA)
• Natural Capital Project: Making Conservation Economically Attractive & Commonplace
• Nature Valuation & Cost benefit Analysis
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM)
• Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems (RUBICODE) 
• Regenboog Advies
• Regional Environmental Assessment Center for Central and Eastern Europe 
• Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES) program
• RNC Alliance: Restoration of Natural Capital - international network of not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations
• SevS - Slootweg en van Schooten (Natural & Human Environment Consultants)
• The Nature Conservancy
• Triple E - Economy, Ecology and Experience
• University Maryland, Ecosystem Valuation
• UK Dept. for Environment
• UN Millennium Project
• Water Footprint Network
• Wetlands International
• Wetland Professionals Platform
• World Resource Institute (WRI)
• World Ocean Network

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